Meanwhile, Chris and Donna are staking out Connie Johnson's drug operation without huge success but all of them are rightly angry and very worried when poor Ibrahim is mugged by local thugs. Another fun, laugh-out-loud, twisty murder mystery that keeps you seconding guessing everyone and everything to the very end.

Richard Osman fulfils the promise of his quintessentially English offbeat and comic crime debut, Thursday Murder Club (TMC), with this cracking sequel. Even though they are busy with their far from successful surveillance of local drug dealer Connie Johnson, Fairhaven’s finest cops DCI Chris Hudson and his partner PC Donna De Freitas are again on hand to assist our favourite senior citizens especially when Ibrahim becomes the victim of a vicious mugging. When composing the team, Osman had said he was inspired by the television show The A-Team, which he had watched in his youth. This has the same charm and appeal of the first one and I feel like with each book, we’re going to peel back another layer for some of these characters. It was quite a long journey back, so somewhere in northern France I unwrapped Ibrahim's chocolates and we ate them, and then I unwrapped Ron's beers and we drank them.For good measure, a couple of other hoodlums run past, laughing, pausing to kick him while he’s down. So overall, yes Mr O I think you have another best seller here which is no great surprise really as the man is multi talented. A lot of people had mentioned to me that Joyce getting Instagram was a highlight of the book, and I have to agree. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, and Ron get caught up in a mysterious case surrounding one of Elizabeth’s ex-husbands. Whereas The Thursday Murder Club made the introductions and scattered those “get to know you” details that one might enjoy at a party where conversations don’t go too deep, this book is more like a sit-down dinner with a glass of wine, where you really start to get to know your new friends and their histories.

Her first-person observations are a chatty way to bring us up to speed with the activities of the Thursday Murder Club of whom readers have became so fond. He further revealed that he had tried to focus on mortality in a "refreshing and possibly even calming" way.The pre-booked (no pun intended) franchising of book serials produces too many weak series and/or series that get progressively worse each book, the flipside when a series is written well, it becomes bigger than the sum of its parts, welcome to the Thursday Murder Club mystery series :) Club member, Elizabeth's past comes to her retirement complex as drug dealing, mugging (singular), theft, murders (plural) and more shake up (or is that stimulate) the lives of the four elderly Club members, their local police allies and everyone's favourite builder Bogdan, when her former employers Military Intelligence (and her former husband!

Ibrahim is the psychiatrist with photographic memory skills, introverted, scared of taking life changing decisions in his life. It’s cosy, so he lives to fight another day with the Thursday Murder Club but he goes through it and it was kinda heartbreaking!

Praising the characters, Michael Dirda of The Washington Post wrote that the Thursday Murder Club were "ordinary old people yet, like all old people, much deeper and complicated than they appear". Polish builder Bogdan completes the eclectic band of justice seekers determined to solve the mystery behind a letter addressed to Elizabeth that appears to be written from the deceased Marcus Carmichael.